Misc. Facts
When was Mental Health Awareness Month established?
What is 1949
This common coping mechanism involves writing down your thoughts in a notebook.
What is Journaling
This type of therapy involves talking with a professional to discuss thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What is Psychotherapy
What is the most common mental health diagnosis in the U.S.
What is anxiety
Which mental health condition has the highest mortality rate?
What is Anorexia
What country has the highest reported rate of mental health problems?
What is Portugal; 19.9% as of 2019
This coping mechanism involves slow breathing and focused attention, popular for staying present.
What is meditation?
This type of therapy teaches people to challenge negative thought patterns and turn less often to unhelpful behaviors
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
True or false, psychopathy is NOT a medical diagnosis
What is true
How many people aged 12-17 in the U.S. suffered one or more major depressive episodes from 2020-2021?
What is 14.7%/3.7 million people
When was homosexuality removed from the DSM, aka the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
What is December 15, 1973
This strategy involves building strong social connections and seeking support from friends, family, or groups during difficult times
What is social support?
This is a type of talk therapy for people who experience emotions very intensely and focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy
A rare neurological disorder that causes involuntary limb movements, usually in the hand, that appears purposeful but is not under the person’s control
What is Alien Hand Syndrome
Approximatley what percentage of adults in the U.S. have experienced a mood disorder in the past year?
What is 9.7%
Who first coined the term 'sociology'?
Who is Auguste Comte
This strategy includes getting regular physical activity that improves your mood by releasing endorphins
What is exercise
This type of therapy is an experimental model that seeks to alleviate patients” psychological suffering by helping them process the overwhelming trauma in a way that facilitates corrective emotional and relational experiences that mobilize positive changes in their neuroplastic brains
What is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Describe Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and its symptoms
A neurological disoder disrupting sensory input; symptoms include distorted sense of time, body, vision, and size, migraines, nausea, dizziness, agitation, loss of limb control, memory loss, poor coordination, etc.
What are the five most common comorbidities?
What are hypertension, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular diseases, depression
In which edition of the DSM was hysteria removed as a mental disorder?
What is the third edition in 1980
This strategy involves repeatedly saying positive things about yourself.
What are positive affirmations
This is a type of talking therapy that looks at the psychological influences behind our behavior, feelings, and relationships, and how these might relate to earlier experiences and involves talking with a therapist to treat emotional problems and mental health conditions by becoming more aware, gaining control, and making choices that works better for us
What is Psychodynamic psychotherapy
What is Apotemnophilia?
A disorder caused by damage to the brain that results in an overwhelming desire to amputate healthy parts of ones body. If amputation is denied, it often leads the person to irrevocably damage the limb themself
When was the first antidepressant discovered?
What are the 1950s